Monday 27 March 2017

Bigotrism

Bigotrism: The misguided belief that one’s politics are primarily determined by one’s attitudes towards the rights of racial and sexual minorities, and not by one’s socio-economic circumstances. People who suffer from bigotrism typically make few useful contributions to public debate, as most of their arguments are based on appeals to abstract issues that their opponents care very little about in the first place, such as basic human rights. Bigotrists tend not to realise the political implications of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; they underestimate the need to appeal to one’s financial security before one’s compassion for other people.

Monday 20 March 2017

Twit

Twit: verb. To post an idiotic tweet. People who twit are alternatively called twits and twitters, depending on how derogatory one intends to be. As with all things, it may seem that determining whether one is twitting or not is a highly subjective matter. Luckily, there is but one truth, and being an idiot is not a matter of opinion but of objective fact. 

Monday 13 March 2017

Memephany

Memephany: noun. A sudden and important realisation about something to do with memes. The most common memephanies are that Pepe is read as “peh-pay” and not as “peep,” that the doge meme is much dead such six feet under wow, that Australia is an actual country and was not made up for the amusement of the European bourgeoisie, that socioeconomic stereotypes perpetuated by meme culture are surprisingly accurate, and that Donald Trump is not a meme but an actual person, and the president of the United States of America at that. 

Monday 6 March 2017

Gnuisance

Gnuisance: noun. Someone or something annoying in the manner of gnus. A gnuisance makes annoying grunting sounds, smells, kicks, headbutts others, or has a silent g. Much talk has been dedicated to how to pronounce the word gnuisance. After some ten years, the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language decided that the word should be pronounced with a silent g, as that was deemed to be hilariously self-referential. The movement then briefly renamed itself to the Moovment for the Rash-n-lihzeyshun of thee Inglish Langwidge, but readopted its former name once it sobered up in the morning.